THE HUNGRY HILLS

For Phillippa Berlyn

(Upon reading “Hills of Inyanga,” POET Magazine, 1967)

From over the mountains

Of a far-off land

Hills of Inyanga call

Across the world,

Beyond the seas,

The hungry hills call to me,

Their mysteries borne

Through the night

And fog of distance

Between the sound of the horn

And the light of the beacon

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